Saturday, April 18, 2009

Happiness Down to a Science


Ponder this question for a second- are you happy? If that seems to you like a tough question to answer, you're not alone. As a matter of fact, that's the focus of scientific research going on right now in Berkeley. The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley studies human happiness, compassion and altruism. So I went there, and sat down with the man who heads the center, Professor Dacher Keltner, who has happiness down to a science. I asked him: if happiness were to be studied, wouldn't it make more sense for it to be an art rather than a science?

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